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Auto alternatives for the 21st centuryTue, 03 Mar 2015 21:55:27 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2Green Motion Rental Coming To Floridahttp://www.hybridcars.com/green-motion-rental-coming-to-florida/
http://www.hybridcars.com/green-motion-rental-coming-to-florida/#commentsThu, 15 Aug 2013 11:17:58 +0000http://www.hybridcars.com/?p=63504Green Motion, a company specializing in low CO2 vehicle rentals, confirmed yesterday the sale of its first franchise in the United States of America for Florida. An independent rental company, Total Auto Rent, has acquired Green Motion’s Master State Franchise for Florida and will commence operations at both Miami international airport and downtown South Beach […]

]]>Green Motion, a company specializing in low CO2 vehicle rentals, confirmed yesterday the sale of its first franchise in the United States of America for Florida.

An independent rental company, Total Auto Rent, has acquired Green Motion’s Master State Franchise for Florida and will commence operations at both Miami international airport and downtown South Beach Miami on Sept. 1 this year.

“We are absolutely delighted that we have been able to reach agreement to open Green Motion’s first franchise in the United States,” said Green Motion International’s founder and chairman, Richard Lowden. “Total Auto Rent under the owner of Patricio Franulic already has an excellent reputation and I am in no doubt whatsoever that the development of the Green Motion brand here in the USA is in safe hands. “

Following the opening of Miami airport and down town locations, Green Motion Florida will then proactively seek to develop the rest of the State through sub-franchising. This development will include both airport and further downtown operations.

“For several years, we have been looking at the expansion of our already successful car hire business when we discovered the Green Motion franchise opportunity – we felt that their unique positioning of the brand with the provision of ecologically friendly vehicles, coupled with their expertise within the global rental industry made them the right partners for our company,” said the owner of Green Motion Florida, Patricio Franulic.

]]>http://www.hybridcars.com/green-motion-rental-coming-to-florida/feed/0Audi R18 e-tron Quattro To Compete First-Last Appearance In Sebringhttp://www.hybridcars.com/audi-r18-e-tron-quattro-to-compete-first-last-appearance-in-sebring/
http://www.hybridcars.com/audi-r18-e-tron-quattro-to-compete-first-last-appearance-in-sebring/#commentsMon, 11 Mar 2013 04:10:47 +0000http://www.hybridcars.com/?p=55152Audi’s R18 e-tron quattro will be celebrating both a debut and a farewell this coming weekend: it will contest the 12-hour race at Sebring (Florida) for the first time and at the same time, it is provisionally the LMP1 sports car’s final appearance in the North American endurance classic. Audi said the race at Sebring […]

]]>Audi’s R18 e-tron quattro will be celebrating both a debut and a farewell this coming weekend: it will contest the 12-hour race at Sebring (Florida) for the first time and at the same time, it is provisionally the LMP1 sports car’s final appearance in the North American endurance classic.

Audi said the race at Sebring is staged under special circumstances for the German company: the merger of the two U.S. championships, the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) and GRAND-AM, sees new regulations coming into force from 2014.

In the future, no Le Mans Prototypes (LMP) of the top category can compete in this race.

As a result, events come full circle for Audi in Florida: in 1999, the brand’s first LMP sports car celebrated its premiere at Sebring – now two LMP1 sports cars with the four rings provisionally contest a race there for the final time.

Audi Sport Team Joest fields two Audi R18 e-tron quattro prototypes. The current World Endurance Champions and Le Mans winners Marcel Fässler (CH) and Benoît Tréluyer (F), who are supported by Oliver Jarvis (GB) at Sebring, drive an R18 from 2012. Lucas di Grassi (BR), Tom Kristensen (DK) and Allan McNish (GB) start in the new R18 e-tron quattro from 2013, which celebrates its race premiere at Sebring.

The Sebring race track is located on a former military airfield, which Audi transforms into the ‘home of quattro’ this year and therefore picks up the threads of a successful chapter of motorsport history: for the first time since 1989, when drivers like Hans-Joachim Stuck and Walter Röhrl raced from victory to victory with the Audi 90 quattro in the IMSA-GTO series, Audi Sport contests a factory event in the USA with a racecar equipped with four-wheel drive.

The Audi R18 e-tron quattro is the first hybrid sports car to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Its front wheels are powered electrically and thus make the R18 a special type of quattro.

After Audi customer racing’s winning start to the season with the one-two finish for the Audi R8 GRAND-AM in the 24-hour race at Daytona, Audi now targets another victory in the USA – despite difficult conditions as the race cars from the American Le Mans Series enjoy several advantages with regard to weight and engine power.

In the 13 outings to date in the sports car classic at Sebring, Audi has claimed 22 podium finishes, including ten overall victories. Three Audi drivers, Michele Alboreto/Dindo Capello/Stefan Johansson, mounted the podium at the premiere on March 20, 1999. The Dane Tom Kristensen is the race’s most successful driver with six wins. Marco Werner holds the lap record at Sebring, the trio Dindo Capello/Tom Kristensen/Allan McNish the distance record.